The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2011
Interview
First got an interview on school campus, then scheduled an on-site test on Seattle one week later. The first interview on campus is extremely easy, questions like:"why do you want this position", "Write a program to reverse a string". The on-site interview is scheduled for 2-3days, which they gathered all the interviewer together and have a dinner and talk about what the interview process will be and how is the live in Seattle. The interview takes all day with 4 1-1 interviews. Each with different person interviewing you and last for 30min. The questions included data structures, algo, logo, and simulation. They decided to give the result RIGHT AFTER the interviews, which makes ppl really excited, however, I didnt get the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
there is an array with 99 length long, each spot will have number from 1-100, number will never repeat on the array. Give as many way as possible to find the missing number.
It started with a 90-minute online assessment, followed by a technical phone screen with one engineer. The OA covered two medium-to-hard algorithm problems. For coding practice, I mainly rely on "LeetCode" to cover different topics. For company-specific interview preparation, I use "Hack2Hire", "LeetCode Discuss", and "1Point3Acres" to find any recent original questions. All of them are helpful platforms. The phone screen included one coding problem and some discussion around edge cases and time complexity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of meeting time intervals, determine if a person could attend all meetings.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2024
Interview
I was invited to a technical interview with Microsoft. The interviewer started with a general question: “What happens when you type google.com into your browser?” They asked a few follow-up questions related to that.
After that, they gave me a LeetCode algorithmic question, which was at a hard level. The problem was “Integer to English Words.”
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What happens when you type google.com into your browser?
2. “Integer to English Words” – LeetCode algorithmic question
Three tech interviews + one hiring manager VO, most of questions are medium to hard leetcode questions. Ask some questions about techniques you written on the resume. But I think they care more about the match of the research and the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about the recommendation System you made for the work.
